Related%20passage for Moed Katan 51:11
על ברכת השם מנלן דכתיב (מלכים ב יח, לז) ויבא אליקים בן חלקיה אשר על הבית ושבנא הסופר ויואח בן אסף המזכיר אל חזקיהו קרועי בגדים
Whence do we derive this? - From what is written: Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son; of Asaph the recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the [blasphemous] words of Rabshakeh.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings XVIII, 37.');"><sup>14</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: 'It makes no difference whether one hears it [himself] or hears it from another who had heard it, he is in duty bound to rend [his clothes], but the witnesses arc not in duty bound to rend [again on reporting] as they have already rent at the time they heard [the blasphemy]'. [You say], 'as they have already rent at the time they heard [the blasphemy]', what matters it, since they do hear it now [again in reporting]? - Do not imagine such a thing.
Explore related%20passage for Moed Katan 51:11. In-depth commentary and analysis from classical Jewish sources.